The Safety of Unknown Cities

Posted on 08 September 2018 by Lucy Taylor

One of the most impressive debut novelscentered around relationship driven fiction catalyzed by horrific events, mostly realistic, sometimes supernatural Indeed it s sexual, it s graphically written, but it s alsoan affecting and powerful novel about heartbreak and the untimely destruction of childhood Edward Bryant, Locus Download The Safety of Unknown Cities author Lucy Taylor – kino-fada.fr Reminiscent of the early works of Clive Barker, Taylor weaves a stunningly graphic horror tale about a sex addicted young woman, Val, who travels the world, sampling the cuisine of the flesh, but never truly finding what she s searching for Then she hears of a mythical City where every desire and perversion of the flesh is welcomed, and becomes obsessed with finding it.Pursued by a psychotic and spurned lover, Breen, Val finds the City, but th...This is a crazy ass book but I think I read it in one sitting I was completely enthralled by Val s journey into strange lands, which were expertly detailed by Lucy Taylor A rich blend of horror, erotica and a bizarre journey, this is the one that pegged Tayl...This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers To view it, click here My god I really wish I hadn t read this book.I knew before I started on this one that it wasn t going to be a light read, but even knowing that, I certainly didn t expect it to be quite so intense It starts out with our protagonist, Val, travelling around from country to country and city to city as she always does Being wealthy she can do as she pleases and so seems to have dedicated her life to the pursuit of pleasure, but even pleasure gets a little tedious after a while and she begins to t My god I really wish I hadn t read this book.I knew before I started on this one that it wasn t going to be a light read, but even knowing that, I certainly didn t expect it to be quite so intense It starts out with our protagonist, Val, travelling around from country to country and city to city as she always does Being wealthy she can do as she pleases and so seems to have dedicated her life to the pursuit of pleasure, but even pleasure gets a little tedious after a while and she begins to think about a place known only as The City , a place her mother spoke of when she was little By all accounts it s a place of such great pleasures and perversions that you ll never experience anything like it, ever, no matter what.So, off she goes in search of a man she knows who she thinks may be able to direct her to this wond...I blundered across Lucy through a Facebook Smashwords free read of her newest book Unspeakable and other Stories She s the kind of blistering, overwhelming talent that makes you want to throw your word processor out the window, listen to what your Momma told you, and go flip burgers.This stuff is like moonshine unapologetically raw, earthy and profane but with an intellectual wallop equivalent to the Borax 20 mule team or a brontosaurus or an mad elephant or something I dunno I m still I blundered across Lucy through a Facebook Smashwords free read of her newest book Unspeakable and other Stories She s the kind of blistering, overwhelming talent that makes you want to throw your word processor...Recently I was read the Horror Writers Association s On Writing Horror One of the latter chapters dealt with writing erotic horror and therein Nancy Kilpatrick writes that the story needs to perform on both levels equally That is, it must succeed as both erotica and horror The problem is that after finishing this I m not sure it succeeds at either the erotic parts cover every lurid deviation to the point of either indifference or repugnance and the horror is ground almost entirely in revul Recently I was read the Horror Writers Association s On Writing Horror One of the latter chapters dealt with writing erotic horror and therein Nancy Kilpatrick writes that the story needs to perform on both levels equally That is, it must succeed as both erotica and horror The problem is that after finishing this I m not sure it succeeds at either the erotic parts cover every lurid deviation to the point of either indifference or repugnance and the horror is ground almost entirely in revulsion....Reread it on a whim and I m giving it onestar Of course I disliked the ending, but then again I m an epilogue elitist, so there you go The Safety of Unknown Cities is a story of fevered lust, depravity and hopelessness, one that s written to upset and possibly disgust you Is it horror Is is erotica It s a mix of many things and mostly this vagueness does not work in its favour Still, the writing is good and won t disappoint you also, evident Clive Barker influences, which can only b Reread it on a whim and I m giving it onestar Of course I disliked the ending, but then again I m an epilogue elitist, so there you go The Safety of Unknown Cities is a story of fevered lust, depravity and hopelessness, one that s written to upset and possibly disgust you Is it horror Is is erotica It s a mix of many things and mostly this vagueness does not work in its favour Still, the writing is good and won t disappoint you also, evident Clive Barker influences, which ca...Disturbing but pointless.

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08 September 2018

Lucy Taylor